This five-year U54 award was funded in September 2013 by the NCI's Partnerships to Advance Cancer Health Equality (PACHE) program. The PACHE enables institutions serving racial/ethnic and/or underserved communities with cancer health disparities and NCI-Designated Cancer Centers (CCs) to train scientists from diverse backgrounds in cancer research and to effectively deliver cancer advances to racially and ethnically diverse communities.
The overall goals of the PACHE are to:
- Build research and training capacity at underrepresented-serving institutions.
- Create stable, long-term collaborations between institutions serving racial/ethnic and/or underserved communities with cancer health disparities and CCs in research, training, career development, and outreach.
- Improve effectiveness of CC research, education, and outreach for underserved populations.
- Export successful approaches for addressing disparities to all CCs and other key networks and consortiums.
The current U54 award supports initiatives to recruit and train underrepresented faculty and students in cancer researc. The award currently encompassestwo cancer research pilot projects, two cancer research full projects, and two cores that involve investigators from four research divisions at the FHCRC and five scientific departments at NMSU.
Principal Investigators
Beti Thompson, Full Member, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutch
Mary O'Connell, Regents Professor, Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, New Mexico State University
For More Information
If you have questions about the FHCRC/NMSU U54 partnership, please contact Jennifer Anderson, U54 Project Manager at the FHCRC or Lene Loest, U54 Project Manager at NMSU.
Please visit NMSU's PACR website here.
